The Rideout murder stayed red, and in Worden's mind it became a metaphor.

The hats also became a metaphor for the problematic White feminism which inspired the march.

To the U.S. Afghanistan immediately became a metaphor for the Soviet Union's boundless appetite & unpredictable behavior.

The music became a metaphor for fire.

I became a metaphor for treachery.

The title track, "New To This Town," has became a metaphor for Brooks' re-entry into solo work.

Rather, it became a metaphor for both clubs' embattled seasons, where any triviality was surpassed by its enormous meaning.

A simple appointment became a metaphor for the struggles, both bureaucratic and emotional, that the displaced face the world over.

It takes an effort to recall that events on a Pacific island in May became a metaphor for a nation's hopes and fears.

In the minds of many the plague became a metaphor for economic malaise, and Law, whose schemes had sparked the speculation contagion, was blamed.